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Woohoo!! I actually read this chapter within 5 minutes of it's release and I was waiting on edge for this thread to start so I can vote!! I am loving the latest developments. Finally Hattori stopped being all 'no it's all good and well' and did something just a tiny bit for his own good. When I read this chapter know what I saw? I saw Azuka and Mashiro getting married. Because Reversi can and WILL become an anime! =D
I saw the option on the poll 'PCP is doomed'. Yes, yes it is, and I couldn't be happier. It was a pointless series that they kinda knew would never become an anime from day one. I'm glad it's gone. And while DGM completely fails me on one end, Bakuman is delivering the best!

Just go through and look at Hattori's facial expressions the whole way through. You knew it was going to be something else.

Though kookily, in the japanese text "PCP" and "Reversi" are both in English, so I was able to pick out them constantly batting those words back and forth.

It is the best solution overall, PCP being a mystery series, as a monthly will give them more space to set up mysteries and traps in it, and stew on interesting ideas, it'll be served better by a longer page count in a single installment, and it'll give the new magazine a flagship established title to run.

Meanwhile, Reversi competes head on with Eiji and gets both authors to up their game, and Hattori stays as editor. And that's all good, but...

I can't help but feel its a little cheap. This is their fourth time now stopping and starting a new series in Jump. In series they've been doing it for 8 years, and they had Mashiro's illness hiatus, and a year between Tanto and PCP, so basically, they're on their 4th series in the course of maybe 5 years of ongoing work.

AND they get Hattori again. Even if the circumstances are different this time, its kind of like... can't they ever keep a single title going for more than a year before they get uppity and want to do something new? Before they go behind people's backs and submit a random one shot to something for no real reason? Can't they ever work with an editor other than the guy they've had for 9 years?

Hell, freaking One Piece has two different editors and changes them out every 2 years. Dragonball had 4 different editors during its 11 year run. At Marvel teams change editors every six months, and people get fired or move onto different careers.

I know "anime, marriage, beat Eiji" are their constant motivators, and Hattori understand them well, (even though I think they still haven't told him the WHY of the anime's importance...) and they're growing and changing as creators, but still... There's things you can only do with a story thats been running for several years that you just can't do with a fresh one. I want to see them deal with a story having to evolve in and of itself over time. Deal with a new editor that isn't the complete idiot Muira was. (This new guy is going to be sidelined as PCP is pushed completely into the background.)

Oh well. Its probably the final arc of the series, so I guess that can all be excused. But if it goes on after this...

But yeah, this chapter was great; especially since it seems like we're kicking off the final arc with a BANG! Hattori's expressions were so awesome.